Energy, Utilities, Telecom, Industrial

Mapping and monitoring the systems that power and connect us, from electrical grids and pipelines to telecom networks and industrial facilities.

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Essential Reading

FARO INSIGHT Introduces New Reality Capture Solutions and Workflow Updates

What Airborne Lidar Actually Sees in Ice

How airborne lidar reveals, and sometimes misreads, the hidden structure of ice

Around the Geospatial, 3D, and AEC Industries: Lidar, Urban Mapping, and Telling Reports

Sokkia solutions showcased at INTERGEO 2026

The BIM Challenge 2026 Goes International with a Full openBIM Workflow and Industry Mentorship 

Romania’s longest-running student BIM Summer School competition welcomed international participants for the first time, bringing together 95 students, eight multidisciplinary teams and industry mentors for an intensive openBIM workflow built around a real project.

Golden Software Enhances Usability for Faster, More Efficient 3D Visualization in Surfer™ Surface Mapping Software

Latest Articles

Trimble Acquires NM Group for 3D Utility Visualization and Modeling

Maser Consulting to Offer UAS Lidar Services

New Reality Modeling Tech and the Fate of the Point Cloud

This Giant Library of 3D Images will Teach Machines How to Recognize Objects

Cost-Effective Geiger Mode Lidar for Mobile Mapping

Bentley Launches Major Reality Modeling Update: New Mobile App, Photogrammetry Capture Planner, Cloud Services, and More

FindSurface: Real-Time, Automatic 3D Object Analysis for Mobile and AR Devices

YellowScan LiveStation: Smart Software Design for UAV Survey

City Model of the Future: Helsinki 3D+

Esri’s Drone2Map 1.1 Adds One-Click Volume Measurements, Richer Data Products

LiveStation: Real-Time Lidar Monitoring for Complex UAV Surveys

VR Meetings that Improve on the Real Thing

Low-Cost Lidar Changes the Game for Service Providers

ILMF 2017 Keynotes Announced

Using 3D Reality Meshes to Index Huge Amounts of Asset Information — And Enable Real-Time Monitoring

The AL-500 Lidar is Small Enough for Fixed Installation, Comes with an API

New Immersive 3D App is a PowerPoint for VR

Meet Leica’s $16k LiDAR Scanner, the BLK360

What Makes the Best 3D-Scanning Systems?

Five Things I Learned about 3D Capture at #YII2016

PhoDAR vs. LiDAR–Is this new technology a giant killer? 

NEXUS 800 is a Turnkey UAV for LiDAR and Photogrammetry

Teledyne Optech Unveils a LiDAR System You Can Strap to Your Back

GeoSLAM and Blackdog are Making an Indoor Mapping Robot

Topcon Releases Two New UAV Mapping Kits

When You’re Blinded, This HoloLens Tool Sees for You

UAV Photogrammetry Predicts Infrastructure Issues Before They Happen

FARO’s New Handheld 3D Scanner is Ideal for Mid-Sized Objects

Vu8: A $475 Solid-State LiDAR that Adapts to Your Needs

Why GE Offered $1.4 Billion for Two 3D-Printing Companies

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Foundations

Blackwood Plant Hire Becomes First UK Contractor to Deploy Automated Dozer Steering

Blackwood Plant Hire and SITECH UK & Ireland are embracing new technology for civil earthworks with the UK’s first automated horizontal steering dozer fleet.

What’s on the Geo Week 2027 Program? Gaussian Splats, Workforce Roadmaps, Underground Mapping and More.

A first look at what’s coming to Geo Week 2027

Digital Twins in Mission-Critical Facilities

Abhijeet Jadhav shares insights on how connected digital twins are transforming industrial operations in an interview with Geo Week News